Opinions Ancient art Enhancement Five hundred Tintoretto
It’s a curious concept of “promotion” (a term that every city councilor is dying to apply to any activity even vaguely related to a work of art—and thus a term that has now been stripped of its meaning and rendered…
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What does one of Italy’s leading contemporary painters think about art fairs and the art market? We discuss this with Daniele Galliano (Pinerolo, 1961), one of the most interesting figures in contemporary Italian painting. Active on…
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News Focus Art Fairs Artissima Contemporary art
How has Artissima changed over the past ten years? How many galleries remain loyal to the fair, how many have tried it just once, how many drop out, how many return, and what do the changes in the fair’s composition suggest? We tried…
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Exhibition reviews Emilia Romagna Five hundred Mannerism Parma Pilotta Complex Pilotta Monumental Complex
A painter of joy even in his name, a painter who “has always dazzled critics with the splendor of his painting, the beatific radiance of his works, and the light that pervades his altarpieces and frescoes, all bathed in…
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Exhibition reviews Ancient art Five hundred Mantua Te Palace
Tucked away as it is inside a horizontal display case—the kind used to display books, the kind that usually goes unnoticed—the portrait of Ferrante Imperato at the museum risks being overlooked, of going unseen. This is also because at…
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Exhibition reviews Contemporary art
Mechanically distracted by an illusion of decisive—if not definitive—meaning when faced with a work of art (or, more simply, even when looking at an image or a shape), we tend to forget any possible dissonance, any possibility of openness…
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A simple and harmless exercise to gauge the relevance of the visual arts sector in Italian public discourse: open the newspapers and count how many articles have been devoted to the appointment of Francesco Bonami as artistic director of…
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Exhibition reviews Ancient art Five hundred Florence Mannerism Pontormo Quirinal Stables Rome Tuscany
To his contemporaries, the frescoes that Pontormo painted in Florence on the walls of the choir of San Lorenzo must have seemed an extreme, laborious expression of defiance— that “negative Sistine Chapel,” as Luciano Berti had…
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